[mythtvnz] Hi to the list, Here is my Mythtv Setup ..

[Criggie]

Bernard Mentink wrote:
> Thanks for that Criggie, I had a look at the new storage groups, that 
> does help with multiple drives but doesn't give me the redundancy that a 
> RAID5 gives me. However, RAID5 is not the ideal answer either because 
> when their is an unclean shutdown of any sort, the array takes a long 
> time to re-initialize (it has to check every sector of every drive, 
> however it does do it in the background taking some % of CPU time).

Yep - At work we settled on JFS for partitions over 500 GB that very 
reason... long fsck/journel playbacks are inconvenient.

Is a RAID necessary?  Its only TV after all.  I use nuvexport to save 
things I want to keep, and put them on another server.



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